Owner of Symbolics Lisp machines IP is interested in a non-commercial release

Re:Owner of Symbolics Lisp machines IP is interested in a no... by IshKebab on Saturday July 08, 2023 @05:42AM (#36642878)

Could be part of the reason, but I think a bigger reason is that it's just not very pleasant to read. Syntax exists for a reason! Nobody really wants to hand-write an AST (or read it).

Imagine programming Python by writing out the AST in JSON. That's what Lisp looks like.

I guess it makes the parser really simple and elegant, but they definitely went way too far towards the programmer on the "make it simple for the programmer/user" spectrum.

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Re:Owner of Symbolics Lisp machines IP is interested in a no... by pasc1878 on Saturday July 08, 2023 @09:22AM (#36644133)

I find lisp much nicer to read than most languages.

C/Java etc (which I was a professional in) have too many bits to the syntax - braces and semi-colons and the execution is not necessarily shown by the format.

I also like python for similar reasons.

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